A topic for the discussion of Farscape, Smallville, and Due South. Beware possible invasions of Stargate, Highlander, or pretty much any other "genre" show that captures our fancy. Expect Adult Content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
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I'm really liking the show now, and I'm close to loving it. I'm not sure whether it's too early for that because S1's not supposed to be good and I'm supposed to wait for S2, but I was biased to like it anyway, and I must be easy to please.
What Debet said. First half of season 1 was hit or miss; second half was when they started hitting more of their cylinders. There are points during season 2 where you're going to think that they're finally running on all cylinders. You'll be mistaken.
Sadly, someone throws sugar in the gas tank in season 4. However, the rebuilt engine they got for the mini series was pretty sweet.
t /driving a metaphor into the ground
driving a metaphor into the ground
More like into a tree.
Or like after all the oil has leaked out of the crankcase and the the engine seizes up....
ION, will the ScFi Channel's
The Triangle
suck? Or will it suck lots and lots?
I think the question is "Will it suck in entertaining ways or in terribly dull ones?"
But, then, I enjoyed Frankenfish lots and lots
I don't know - does a SciFi original programming movie have to have some sort of monster or human/animal hybrid in order to suck in entertaining ways?
Eh - if I'm bored and not doing anything, maybe I'll find out.
ION, the romance stuff on
Hulk
is so badly written.
Ang would have been better served to make a movie not part of a long-running comic book franchise.
I think he's an amazing director, one of my favourites, and you know damned few people, even if they liked the movie, were fist-pumping "That's my Hulk! That's my man!" with parallel enthusiasm, say, to my reaction to
Batman Begins.
Even if the movie hadn't sucked, I can't see it tapping into what makes comic book readers love the comic. He's never struck me as that sort of director.
When I'm being extra-nice I decide that it's being hampered by canon and pop culture and medium-grade iconicity that helps the movie to be bad.
Was there all this incredibly complicated backstory to Bruce and the scientist chick and their fathers in the comic book?
Not in any of the comics I've read.
And, whether there was or not, there's an icon-adaptation problem -- who cares? If you're going to lose the people who know as much as "Some radiation thing, and now he goes green and stupid when he gets angry" while pleasing the fanboys, you're not making your money back.
I don't think the Hulk is a complicated character. If you're going to dress him up, make it easy.
Was there all this incredibly complicated backstory to Bruce and the scientist chick and their fathers in the comic book?
In the original comic, Banner is head scientist on a gamma bomb project overseen by General Ross. Betty Ross and Bruce start falling in love in the first issue.
I'm about halfway though
Hulk,
and I'm bored silly. Does interesting stuff happen in the rest of the movie? Any decent special effects?
